I have always "dabbled" in photography, but never had a DSLR. A friend was so excited about this camera that I just had to check it out an am very glad that I did! eatures are great and the variety in lenses by Samsung is also very good. The camera has features that are too numerous to mention including being able to crop the picture right there on the camera make some image corrections and email it someone (through wifi). The camera is quite light and feels weird with the 50-200mm zoom lens zoomed in all the way. The amoled screen is to die for (but don't, you have too much to live for). One really nice feature is the wireless functions. I haven't tried with an iPhone yet but I have both a Samsung note3 and the 10.1 inch note tablet. You can use either as a remote viewfinder/shutter release and touch focus device! Now you can take a "proper" selfie! The camera creates it's own wifi network and you use the Samsung smart camera app. You see realtime video streamed from the camera and if you touch your phone it autofocuses the camera (very cool) and you can use the phone as a shutter release as well. You can also quickly and easily transfer pictures directly to your phone or tablet. I love shooting some pics then sending them to my note 10.1 tablet for viewing. Very convenient and the transfers are SUPER fast. You can also transfer pics from your phone to the camera but I'm not sure why you'd want to. I purchased the 30mm pancake lens which (like others) I have fallen in love with! it's a great "about town" fast lens with great low light performance. Although it isn't a zoom, you can crop your pictures and still retain some amazing detail (I was personally stunned with the cropped quality). It's my understanding that you don't need high megapixels if you're not printing very large pictures, but I think the pixel density really does make a difference for cropping pics. Extra batteries are cheap as is an external charger (get them as this thing seems to eat up batteries). Don't worry if you're just getting into this type of camera as it has a number of smart functions for figuring out what kind of shot you're taking so if you don't know your ISO from a hole in the ground don't worry about it. the camera does have a flash but it attaches to the hot shoe on top (no built in). it's super easy to check for the sharpness of the pic you just took by hitting the play button and double tapping the photo which zooms it about 7x (very useful to be sure you got a good shot and very quick to do).
By the way, if you have a Samsung phone for connecting to the camera make CERTAIN that your wifi function is NOT set to AUTO NETWORK SWITCH! Mine was turned on and what happened was the phone would find the camera's wifi network and immediately give an error message saying "internet connection is too slow" and drop the network again. I spent an hour on the phone with Samsung until I figured out the solution by myself (Samsung techs tried to help but they didn't understand the problem either). Go to your wifi setting on the phone and then hit the menu button on your phone and choose "advanced" and then clear the auto network switch checkbox. As soon as I did that, boom! the phone found the camera and connected flawlessly and quickly every single time.
I'm not 100% certain but I think if you email photos directly from the camera it compresses them, but if you send pics to your phone first, they are the original file size which you can then email from your phone.
for the money I just can't see anyone getting a better camera. That said, if you want to buy really good "glass" plan on spending more than the camera (but I think that's true of all DSLRs). The Samsung macro lens is like 500 bucks and their premier portrait lens (the 85mm primary) is like 800. So far I'm loving this camera and it has gotten me excited enough to start learning more about digital photography and learning how to take better pictures. If you take crappy pictures with this camera its going to be YOU not this camera!
BTW if you want something supertelephoto for like nature shots or stalking that woman who just won't return your calls (kidding, i'm kidding), something that you can goof around with without taking out a 2nd mortgage on your home you can get the Samyang (not Samsung) 500mm telephoto F8 (manual focus) lens with a 2x teleconverter to give you a 1000mm lens. It's basically like sticking a telescope onto your camera. It's only like 135 bucks here on amazon so don't expect to be taking sports illustrated cover photos at your next football game. I haven't received mine yet but i'll write a review after I get it. If you want a zoom lens that will work properly with the NX line of cameras Samsung's longest lens is the 50-200mm zoom which is nice and also affordable. There is rumor of Samsung planning a 70-400mm lens but that's all I've heard so far. This probably wasn't a helpful review for "Real" camera guys, but if you're stepping up from a point and shoot fixed lens camera I hope my review helped a bit. If you have other questions I'll try to answer as best I can. Happy shooting!
Update: you can't transfer pics from your phone to the camera (which didn't make sense anyhow). The camera let's you choose which pics to transfer from the camera to
The phone but you can select pics using either the camera screen or via the phone screen.
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| display type | AMOLED | LCD | LCD | LCD | LCD | LCD |
| display size | 3.3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 3 inches | 4 inches | 3 inches |
| lens type | Interchangeable | Wide Angle | — | Telephoto | Fixed | Telephoto |
| zoom type | Other | Optical Zoom | Digital Zoom | Optical Zoom | Digital Zoom | Optical Zoom |
| shooting modes | Automatic | Automatic | Auto, scene, and P, S, A, and M | Automatic, Movie, Panorama, Portrait, Macro | Manual | Panorama, Automatic, Easy |
| connectivity tech | HDMI, USB | USB, HDMI, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi | Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB | Wi-Fi, USB | Wi-Fi, HDMI, USB | USB |
| video resolution | FHD 1080p | 1080p | 4320p | 1080p | 2160p, 2.7K | 1080p |
| optical zoom | 2.5 multiplier x | 3.1 multiplier x | 1 multiplier x | 52 multiplier x | — | 40 multiplier x |
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This camera is awesome! I used to have a Canon 7D, which I loved, but I had to sell it because money was tight. I eventually was able to buy this little camera and I love it! The LCD screen doesn't do the photos justice. I use Lightroom to process my photos and they look gorgeous on my computer. It has all the point-and-shoot features you could want (portrait, landscape, action shots, and even this one called beauty, where it automatically smooths out your skin). But it also has manual controls, which is perfect for me. I'm able to do 30-second exposures to get photos of the Milky Way and meteors. It's a very versatile and high-quality camera for this price point. I love that you can buy different lenses for it too. I haven't gotten any other lenses but I plan on buying the fish eye lens. I highly recommend this camera for people who like to take pictures as a hobby but may not want to spring for a high-end DSLR.
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This camera is awesome! I used to have a Canon 7D, which I loved, but I had to sell it because money was tight. I eventually was able to buy this little camera and I love it! The LCD screen doesn't do the photos justice. I use Lightroom to process my photos and they look gorgeous on my computer. It has all the point-and-shoot features you could want (portrait, landscape, action shots, and even this one called beauty, where it automatically smooths out your skin). But it also has manual controls, which is perfect for me. I'm able to do 30-second exposures to get photos of the Milky Way and meteors. It's a very versatile and high-quality camera for this price point. I love that you can buy different lenses for it too. I haven't gotten any other lenses but I plan on buying the fish eye lens. I highly recommend this camera for people who like to take pictures as a hobby but may not want to spring for a high-end DSLR.
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